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Coal Baron – or Glück Auf in German, after a greeting German miners use when wishing one another luck – has players sending miners underground to dig tunnels and acquire coal, which comes in four levels of quality and is used to fulfill contracts.
The game lasts three rounds, and in each round players take turns placing their workers on action spaces; you can place on a space occupied by another player, but you need to place additional workers in order to do so. Each player has an individual elevator shaft, and will need to use workers to extract coal and bring it to the surface, while also competing for contracts and scrounging for cash in order to do everything else that needs to be done!
Year Published
2013
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Overall sentiment (raw)
nostalgic but not strongly compelling
Pros
- solid, familiar mining theme with tactile components
- play mat and metal coins add quality
Cons
- theme feels dated for some; price/board content expectations high
- could be overpriced for what you get
Thematic elements
- Industrial era mining
- Mining for coal and iron; classic resource management
- Historical but lightweight in theme
Comparison games
- CNC Publishing line
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tile placement/resource management — purchase and manage resource tiles, track finance and growth
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- I think this looks like magic the Gathering it really does seem like it
- it's just too much and people are just throwing hundreds of dollars into it
- as always yes I've been quite negative on the kickstarters and that but just remember as always it's only a game
- the hype train on this one that's going around at the moment
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